The Millennium
Isaiah 65:17–25
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
President Joseph Fielding Smith wrote:
“Isaiah . . . [has] spoken very plainly in relation to the coming of the Lord to reign. . . . Isaiah, in the 65th chapter, verses 17–25, by prophetic utterance, declares that there shall come ‘new heavens and a new earth’ [Isa. 65:17]. When that day comes Jerusalem shall be cleansed and there shall be joy in her. ‘There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed’ [Isa. 65:20]. In that day they shall build and inhabit, and shall not labor in vain [see Isa. 65:21–23]. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox [see Isa. 65:25]. Such are the words of Isaiah.”
(Church History and Modern Revelation, 2 vols. [1953], 1:460.)
